Happy new year, and welcome back to Black Diplomats! On this episode host Terrell Starr welcomes National Security expert Asha Castleberry-Hernandez, and nuclear policy analyst Lovely Umayam to talk about what safety means in 2021. For all the bluster of the last four years, not even the US nuclear umbrella can protect us from COVID-19.

Intro:

• 00:00: Terell, Asha and Lovely talk about what foreign policy hopes they have for 2020.

In the news:

• 15:02: Mike Pompeo's Swagger tweet about US foreign policy
• 23:14: The deployment of B-52 bombers to the Middle East and to intimidate Iran
• 42: 20: Let's debate an article that more American allies need nukes

How has 2020 prepared you for 2021?

• 55:48: Asha talks about her run for congress
• 62:55: Lovely talks about the Bombshelltoe project and combining the arts with understanding nuclear policy

What can America learn from the world?

• 80:00: Examples of what’s working in other countries (can you say bullet train?!)

Closeout:

• 93:00: What everyone’s looking forward to in 2021

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